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Picking apart climate models

Data and model-based evidence suggests that future weather patterns will be more complex than simply those of the past plus background warming. Now research offers physical explanations of how short-term climate variability might adjust.

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Huntingford, C. Picking apart climate models. Nature Clim Change 7, 691–692 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3391

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